# Claude 2.1 vs Kimi K2.5

> Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-1-vs-kimi-k2-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2.5 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2.5 leads 51.8 to 10.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.9% for Claude 2.1 and 92.2% for Kimi K2.5.
- Kimi K2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2.1 | Kimi K2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 48.1 |
| Rank | 345 | 57 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.45 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327)
- Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Kimi K2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | 45.6% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 73.8% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 70.8% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1437 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 67.3% |
| SciCode | — | 49% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1474 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 821.65 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 2.1: —
- Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Kimi K2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 43.2% |
| OSWorld | — | 63.3% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 1,198 |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221)
- Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Kimi K2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | 148.03 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 11.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 46.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 78.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 69.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 65.3% |
| CritPt | — | 3.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 3.4% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 69.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1453 |
| DTBench | 51% | — |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |

## Math

- Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315)
- Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Kimi K2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 92.2% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 62.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1470 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 27.9% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292)
- Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Kimi K2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 87.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 24.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 34.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 14.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1466 |
| MMLU | 73.5% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 2.1: —
- Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Kimi K2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1430 |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2.1: —
- Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Kimi K2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1433 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1495 |
| LMArena French | — | 1454 |
| LMArena German | — | 1441 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1421 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1410 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1435 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1450 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2.1: —
- Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Kimi K2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1431 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2.1: —
- Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Kimi K2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 86.1% |
| CL-bench | — | 19.3% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 13.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1445 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2.1: —
- Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Kimi K2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1445 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1423 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1579 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1444 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2.1 better than Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 2.1 or Kimi K2.5 better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Kimi K2.5 share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.5 has 51.